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homosexual dictatorships
I mean... I'm cishet, but I'm willing to give it a go. Probably better than what we have around here.
Fellow cishet. I, for one, welcome our fabulous overlords.
The paperwork is a real pain in the ass though
Absolutely blows.
Why thank you. You shall be spared from our rainbow re-education facilities.
I mean what's the worst that could happen? I have to dress more fashionably? Wear rainbows all the time? The horror.
Idk why but I thought of this
Watching that as an adult is so much different than as a kid. When I was young I thought, "haha, they are in trouble now!" Now I see the worst thing that happened was them having to ballroom dance.
I'm all about Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, go for it lmao
It's South Korea. Fully Automatic, sure. Luxury for some, sure. Gay? Unlikely. Communism?
I've got bad, bad news.
Don't threaten me with a good time
It has long been a Christian lobby rallying cry that the mere mention of homosexuality will bring about their imagined “homosexual dictatorship”, a prophecy that includes crumbling family structures, crashing birth rates, an AIDS pandemic, and gay soldiers surrendering en masse to a North Korean invasion.
Ah, yes, this is a very important issue to South Korea. They wouldn't want to lose their position as the -let me check the notes- second country in the world with the lowest birth rate. Rigid and traditional gender roles are working great for them so far, it's not like men and women hate each other over there or anything.
Isn't it #1 now since Hong Kong was gobbled up by China?
Aaaand that would be correct.
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What does even "homosexual dictatorship" means? Will they oppress straight people? 😂😂
The people who want to oppress LGBTQ people literally can't fathom that they wouldn't oppress them right back if they had power.
Or that there's not enough of them for that even to be an option.
The terrible oppression of letting people different than me have the same rights I have.
I'm all for radical religious groups being defeated.
My question is, why do we constantly lend credence to their hateful ideas? Why constantly report on how they feel as if they’re the standard bearer of…—well, as if their opinion even mattered? We don’t get constant updates when other hateful organizations are upset over the people they try to oppress. Normalize ignoring these people.
Go ahead and say anything about Islam on lemmy and see how fast it gets taken down.
It depends on what you’re saying. People—especially people from the US—very quickly move from/confuse criticizing Islam as an inherently flawed organized religion to straight up Islamophobia. After 9/11 Islamophobia was pretty much institutionalized, so most US people online today either grew up in that or grew up in a more racist/intolerant time because they’re older.
There is a difference. But people don’t know how to deal in nuance on the internet. So “hey, I think Israel is committing genocide” gets funneled into straight up antisemitism. The same is true for criticizing Islam. Or any religion. Or any thing. People try to out-righteous each other and end up on the wrong side of prejudice. Well…I guess there’s no right side of prejudice. But you know what I mean.
The only thing I disagree with is your use of the word "confuse". They aren't confused, they know what they are doing. It really isn't that hard to keep two ideas in your head
Islam has the second highest body count of any religion. More people have died from it than every religion of humanity accept Christianity. It is fundamentally, on the text level, a violent faith. That doesnt mean anything about people born into it. You can have a violent god and not be a violent person.
You just said something bad about Islam on Lemmy 4 hours ago, and it isn't taken down yet.
I dunno. Maybe I just think people are dumber and more susceptible to crafting an online identity that is “more” than other people with the same identity. But who knows, maybe you’re right and people know they’re being racist, antisemitic, etc.
What’s that old saying? Never assume malice when ignorance is possible? Something to that effect. I think people get so lost (completely unwittingly) in crafting their online identities. They see people or outlets they like pushing a certain viewpoint, and these people naturally want to be more of that identity. It’s being completely unoriginal, unthinking while also craving “unique” identity within the circles they see. They want those upvotes, those likes, that engagement, and see 60% of a concept, so lean toward 100%—the problem with this stupid kind of thinking is that 60% is a just, humanistic view (or, on the right, an angry, couched view) while 100% is full blown prejudice.
There’s no one answer, but I firmly believe this accounts for a good amount of the ignorance we see online these days.
I've seen a lot of criticism towards Islam from positions of defending secularism and opposing fanaticism, which I think is neat. If I see someone attacking Muslims from positions of bigotry, I don't think that's so neat. Do you understand the difference?
homosexual dictatorship sounds pretty good actually
Sounds pretty gay*
Like The Flintstones, it'll be a gay ol' time!
Disco Fridays? I'm in!
Religion ruins everything and everywhere
Christian missionaries and post-Korean War Americanization have wrought some truly terrible things on Korea.
Everywhere.
Well it seems religious people in any part of the world are stupid and crazy.
Conservatism is a vile, deadly plague that needs to be extinguished.
What's with the star of David swastika mascot 👀
The swastika doesn't have the same associations with the Nazis in Asia
Where? I read the article but didn't spot it
E: oh wait it's on the first picture. Can't tell if yikes or just your standard religious symbol...
Dicktatorship for short
you'd think south korean radical christians would be more concerned about the rampant sexism and misogyny that's plaguing the country
No Christ is exceedingly sexist. There's literally instructions on how hard you can beat your wife and with what in the Bible.
Count me in, that sounds fabulous!
Korean Adjacent
Everybody must be homosexual now, no hetro sex allowed!
These people are hilarious, and dangerous